I don't want to like tcl at all but it's asbsurdly easy to embed in C and has very powerful constructs once you get used to them and no Global Interpreter Lock

I don't want to like tcl at all but it's asbsurdly easy to embed in C and has very powerful constructs once you get used to them and no Global Interpreter Lock like python. So there was a discussion about why people still use C or similar recently and I think that C+tcl is a potent combination where you can mix C and TCL in a very natural way such that you never do in C what TCL does much more easily but you can still get excellent performance where it counts. It's all theoretically possible in python but just feels like much more work.